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an anthropomorphized animal often serves
as the protagonist. The trickster-hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat, a liar, or a rival to other animals,
humans, or the gods and is usually characterized by mischievous, deceptive, or even treacherous behavior |
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| Ralph Waldo Emoerson and Henery David Thoreau were advocates of this philosophy. |
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fixed or
closed verse originated in Italy but was
introduced to England, where it was
developed and established as an English
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| The style in which early colonist's writings were written. |
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| Vividly describe the hardships of crossing the Atlantic in a tiny vessel, the misery and suffering of the first winter, the approaches of the American Indians, the decamation of their ranks, and the establishment of the Bay Colony of Massachusetts. |
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| Poet that related early New England life. Modern readers learn of the hardships of early settlers. |
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| A History of the Dividing Line |
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| William Byrd's Journal chronicling his trek into the Dismal Swamp separating the Carolinian territories from Virginia and Maryland. |
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| James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Whittier. |
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| Writer of dark, brooding short-stories such as Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, The Devil and Tom Walker, and Rappuccini's Daugher. |
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| New Englanders come to America for religious freedom, but end up finger-pointing an one another instead. |
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| His Christ-like sacrifice to the black-and-white maritime laws on the high seas make up a central theme in this Melville tale. |
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| Wrote "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." |
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| A Civil War poet who wrote often on the effect of the Civil War and the assasination of Lincoln. |
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| Period after the Romantic Period and criticism of the romantics who they said looked at the world through "rose-colored" glasses. |
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| Stephen Crane wrote this book about the daily sufferning of the common soldier in the Civil War. |
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| American Drama, American Fiction, and American Poetry |
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| Twentieth-Century Writing can be divided into the following three genres. |
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| Long Day's Journey Into Night |
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| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and a Street Car Named Desire. |
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| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Three tall Women, and A Delicate Balance. |
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| The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom |
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| The Fixer and The Natural |
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| Beloved, Jazz, and the Song of Solomon |
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| The Femine Mystique and The Second Stage |
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| Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study in Social Mythology |
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| Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and "Driving Into the Wreck." |
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| Considered the father of English literature. |
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| Author of "Le Morte d'Arthur" |
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| Creator of the Nine line stanza, with eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by an extra-footed ninth line or iambic hexameter. |
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| Three-quatrain sonnet concluding with one heroic couplet. |
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| Format of Shakesperean Sonnet |
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| Author of Pilgrim's progress |
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| Author of "Paradise Lost" |
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